Ambiguity and Choice in Public Policy
Subtitle: Political Decision Making in Modern Democracies (American Governance and Public Policy)
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780878401352
Subjects: Central government policies; Politics / Current Events; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; USA; Public Policy - General; Political planning; Decision making
First sentence: AMBIGUITY is a fact of political life.
Description: "Zahariadis offers a theory that explains policymaking when "ambiguity" is present - a state in which there are many ways, often irreconcilable, of thinking about an issue - combining theory with cases to examine policymaking in a variety of modern democracies."--Jacket.